Are you an NFL fan, or curious about analyzing social media data? -- Well, in either case, this blog's for you! I recently read a fascinating Facebook article that included a U.S. county map showing which NFL (U.S. football) team had the most 'likes' i...
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I have referenced this paper many times. Great help in using the power of proc sql with macro variables. Great for building lists of values and dynamic code. http://www.nesug.org/Proceedings/nesug97/coders/eddlesto.pdf Syntax: SELECT object-item ... ...
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I’ve already written about one highlight of SAS Global Forum 2013: the SAS Web Editor. Here are some more features that I think deserve mention. Please note that I make no claims about the comprehensiveness or completeness of this list. SAS 9.4 and Enterprise Guide 6.1 are scheduled for release in June and bring...
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SAS Global Forum ended two weeks ago.  I thought by now someone would have written about SAS on the Mac and saved me the trouble, but since I don’t see much discussion of this in the blogosphere, here are my belated two cents. If you have been using SAS as long as I have,...
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In my last post, I promised to lift the lid on British etiquette in time for your visit to the Analytics conference. Well, I’m going to be a bit more specific and focus my insight on London Etiquette, primarily, Greetings and Tube Etiquette. Greeting...
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I was pleased to be invited to present a paper on Visual Techniques for Problem Solving and Debugging at this year's SAS Global Forum (SGF) conference. I spoke about the importance of human interaction in solving complex issues; the process and peopl...
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Last week someone posted an interesting question to the SAS/IML Support Community. The problem involved four nested DO loops and took hours to run. By transforming several nested DO loops into an equivalent matrix operation, I was able to reduce the run time to about one second. The process of
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I recently updated my plots of the data analysis tools used in academia in my ongoing article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. I repeat those here and update my previous forecast of data analysis software usage. Learning to use … Continue reading →
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This year we’re holding the first of our Analytics Series conferences in London, right by Waterloo Station.   Not too far from the hotel is the Florence Nightingale Museum.   Most of us (at least in Britain) know her well from school as ‘the La...
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